Guam national football team
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Nickname (s) | Matao | ||
Association | Guam Football Association | ||
confederacy | AFC | ||
Technical sponsor | adidas | ||
Head coach |
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captain | Jason Cunliffe | ||
Record scorer | Jason Cunliffe (17) | ||
Record player | Jason Cunliffe (35) | ||
Home stadium | Guam National Football Stadium | ||
FIFA code | GUM | ||
FIFA rank | 199. (873 points) (as of July 16, 2020) |
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Balance sheet | |||
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98 games 23 wins 10 draws 65 losses |
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First international Guam 0:11 Fiji ( Hagåtña , Guam ; August 24, 1975)
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Highest win Palau 2:15 Guam ( Koror , Palau ; August 1, 1998)
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Biggest defeat Guam 0:21 North Korea ( Taipei , Republic of China on Taiwan ; March 11, 2005)![]() ![]() |
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(As of March 24, 2016) |
The Guam national soccer team is the national team of the Pacific US outlying area Guam .
Guam is a member of the world football association FIFA and the regional association AFC and takes part in the qualifying games for the football world championships and for the AFC Asian championship . Guam has not yet managed to qualify for a soccer World Cup or the soccer Asian Cup. Politically, the state belongs to the United States .
The Guamian national team has so far had to deal with the role of an outsider in Asian football. The 0:21 against North Korea on March 11, 2005 is the biggest defeat of an Asian team. In total, Guam has ten games in its statistics in which the opponent scored at least 14 goals. No other team achieved their highest victories against any other team. A total of twelve teams succeeded against Guam, nine of them double-digit. The national team won their first official FIFA international match in 2009 and is now 188th in the FIFA world rankings (as of 6 July 2017).
Guam won their first qualifying game on June 11, 2015, when they defeated Turkmenistan 1-0 in a qualifying game for the 2018 World Cup . A week later the second home win (2: 1) against India at home followed Harmon.
Participation in soccer world championships
- 1930 to 1998 - did not participate
- 2002 (qualification) - not qualified
- 2006 - withdrawn
- 2010 - withdrawn
- 2014 - did not participate
- 2018 - did not qualify
Participation in the AFC Asian Championship
- 1956 to 1992 - did not participate
- 1996 (qualification) , 2000 (qualification) , 2004 (qualification) - not qualified
- 2007 - did not participate
- 2011 (qualification) - not qualified
- 2015 (qualification) - not qualified
Participation in the East Asian Football Championship
- 2003 - not qualified (8th place)
- 2005 - not qualified (8th place)
- 2008 - not qualified (9th place)
- 2010 - not qualified (8th place)
- 2013 - not qualified (7th place)
- 2015 - not qualified (6th place)
- 2017 - not qualified (7th place)
- 2019 - not qualified (9th place)
AFC Challenge Cup
- 2006 - preliminary round
- 2008 (qualification) - not qualified
- 2010 - did not participate
- 2012 - did not participate
- 2014 (qualification) - not qualified
Participation in South Pacific Games / Pacific Games
- 1975 - preliminary round
- 1979 - preliminary round
- 1983 - did not participate
- 1987 - did not participate
- 1991 - preliminary round
- 1995 - preliminary round
- 1999 - No soccer tournament was played at these South Pacific Games.
- 2003 - did not participate
- 2007 - did not participate
- 2011 - preliminary round
Trainer
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Willie McFaul (1999-2003)
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Sugao Kambe (2003-2005)
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Norio Tsukitate (2005-2009)
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Kazuo Uchida (2011-2012)
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Gary White (2012-2016)
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Darren Sawatzky (2016-2017)
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Karl Dodd (2018-)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
- ↑ The island state of Guam celebrates its first ever victory against Turkmenistan . sport1.de , June 11, 2015.